What bugs me about this movie.
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a_l_i_e_n — 10 years ago(May 04, 2015 01:14 AM)
Almost seems like he viewed the younger version of himself as Roy.to me, anyways.
Couldn't agree more. And it could only have been the Spielberg that existed before the birth of his first child. After that, he was never the same person- as if anybody could be after a life-altering event like becoming a parent. -
buckaroobanzai50 — 10 years ago(May 31, 2015 11:10 AM)
Roy never leaves his family; they leave him (perhaps "justifiably" so but, nonetheless, they do)
Exactly!
He tries to include them in his new found discoveryBut they just think that he's gone mad, and abandon
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swordedsoul — 10 years ago(July 14, 2015 08:45 AM)
Now as a father I have a hard time with Roy leaving his family. Watching the movie again i notice that the aliens imprinted such a strong drive for Roy (and others) to get to Devils Tower.
I guess how I justify Roy leaving is the imprint was a big part in making Roy feel ok with leaving his family behind. Maybe they will return him back to the point of his departure so he really didn't leave them at all. (assuming time travel).
I dont give half a hump if your innocent or not, so where does that put you?Shephard Book -
johnsokw — 10 years ago(February 26, 2016 05:55 PM)
Not that anyone has asked me to rewrite the script, but perhaps Spielberg could have showed him struggling more, if not outright Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice. There was enough slow time of shots of the crowd gaping slack-jawed, that a scene with him desperately trying to contact his kids and have atearful farewell or something like that. I mean, soldiers, cops, astronauts and astronautesses have to follow their destiny. I guess, other than that I agree with so many threads that the aliens changed his brain somehow. All of this is supposed to be the job of the writers not the audience, but as a student once in creative writing, I know one has a deadline and must get something turned in and one prays that others do not analyze it too much. Even our Constitution had gaping holes. I am USA cit not Brit.
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bj_mallory — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 10:47 AM)
Everyone says Roy abandoned his family, he missed them growing up, worst father ever!!
Did we watch the same movie? Not that I blame her after Roy starts throwing plants and garbage into the house through the kitchen window, but she is the one who took the kids and left. Then we see Roy pleading with her days later over the phone (with his built-to-scale model of Devils Tower looming in the background), saying that he'll do anything (presumably to get her and the kids back). The conversation is one-sided, but it sounds like she's saying she wants a trial separation (Roy: "What? How long??"). Then he sees the news footage showing that his visions actually are showing him a real place. Ronnie has dumped him and now he has proof, a real place he can go to see what the hell is happening.
Even though he probably saw the pilots and other people who had been abducted years before, he probably didn't put that together. All he knows is that he's seeing something wonderful and magical. As he climbed the ramp, it probably never entered his mind that Einstein was right; maybe he didn't even know Einstein's theory. Maybe he thought that he'd be back in a short time and would keep trying to reunite his family. If he returned at all, he would have thought he was only gone a week or maybe a month. But decades would have passed here on Earth. -
workbumpf — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 09:23 AM)
Saw the movie again recently, not having seen it in years. Dreyfuss was so annoying - both the character and the actor. I would have been relieved if aliens actually took him and kept him out of movies for good.